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· Public charity

Kentucky Education Association

To unite, organize and empower members to advocate for themselves, to ensure a quality public education for every kentucky student and to be the preeminent voice for quality public education.

$453k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$151k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.4MEmployment$1.0MPublic Benefit$231kArts & Culture$52kHuman Services$6k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $370,572, the rows itemized in this filing. The $452,674 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,102 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $151k
$14,120
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED$151,136
KEA-CENTRAL DISTRICT$36,268
NORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$26,097
EASTERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$21,173
SECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$18,237
THIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$17,159
FIRST DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$16,251
FOURTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$14,120
FIFTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$14,051
KENTUCKY EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION$13,690
UPPER CUMBERLAND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$11,439
COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC$11,000
MIDDLE CUMBERLAND EDUCATION DISTRICT ASSOCIATION$7,963
UPPER KENTUCKY RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$6,075
DC-KEA$5,913
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%NORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $34k → 7%FOURTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $22k → 13%SECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $18k → 13%PROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KY: $250k → 14%FIRST DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $30k → 15%FIFTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $19k → 15%THIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $23k → 18%SECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $26k → 19%EASTERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $21k → 20%EASTERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $34k → 35%NORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $33k → 7%FOURTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $21k → 13%KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED: $208k → 14%FIRST DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $22k → 15%FIFTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $19k → 15%THIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $22k → 18%SECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 19%EASTERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $32k → 35%NORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $31k → 7%FOURTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $19k → 13%KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED: $185k → 14%FIRST DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $21k → 15%FIFTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $18k → 15%THIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $22k → 18%SECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 19%EASTERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $30k → 35%NORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $29k → 7%FOURTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $17k → 13%KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED: $179k → 14%FIRST DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 15%THIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $19k → 18%SECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $23k → 19%EASTERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $18k → 35%KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED: $161k → 14%THIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $18k → 18%SECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%NORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $26k → 7%KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED: $151k → 14%KEA-CENTRAL DISTRICT: $46k → 15%THIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $17k → 18%KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED: $137k → 14%KEA-CENTRAL DISTRICT: $46k → 15%KEA-CENTRAL DISTRICT: $45k → 15%KEA-CENTRAL DISTRICT: $29k → 15%KENTUCKY EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION: $24k → 15%KENTUCKY EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION: $22k → 15%KENTUCKY EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 15%KEA-CENTRAL DISTRICT: $36k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 15 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -10% since the first grant, against -76% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$2.5M
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
-76%

Still filing today

20%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEmploymentCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • KE
    KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue -10% · 93% of their budget
  • KD
    KEA-CENTRAL DISTRICT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $212k
  • NK
    NORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $165k

Funded once

  • PO
    PROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KY
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • OT
    OPERATION TURNOUT
    one grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue -76%
  • UK
    UPPER KENTUCKY RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
1/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KY: $250,000 · OtherPROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KYKEA-CENTRAL DISTRICT: $211,819 · OtherKEA-CENTRAL DISTRICTNORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $164,943 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONEASTERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $142,501 · OtherEASTERN KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONSECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $137,001 · OtherSECOND DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONFIRST DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $126,693 · OtherFIRST DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONTHIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $120,213 · OtherTHIRD DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONFOURTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $107,373 · OtherFOURTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONKENTUCKY EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOC: $99,662 · OtherKENTUCKY EDUCATION SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS ASSOCFIFTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $97,540 · OtherFIFTH DISTRICT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONUPPER CUMBERLAND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $78,286 · OtherMIDDLE CUMBERLAND EDUCATION DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $65,964 · Other+3 more: $60,261 · OtherKENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED: $1,020,485 · EmploymentKENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIREDKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureOPERATION TURNOUT: $18,950 · Civil Rights
Other$1,662,256Employment$1,020,485Arts & Culture$51,500Civil Rights$18,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED: $1,020,485 over 6y, 93% of budgetPROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KY: $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION TURNOUT: $18,950 over 1y, 9.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION - RETIRED ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KY ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION TURNOUT ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kentucky Education Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kentucky Education Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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